iSCSI boot?

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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has experimented getting xbian to boot from an iSCSI target? I know Xbian
can boot using NFS.

I recently spent weeks getting a normal raspbian install to boot from an iSCSI target, I ended up
having to use dracut to make the initramfs and recompile the kernel to include iSCSI support.

Does anyone have any experience with this on Xbian?

Does anyone know if the Xbian kernel has iSCSI support already built in?

How much is the xbian kernel modified compared to the standard raspberry pi kernel?

Could I just reuse my 4.1.17+ kernel with iSCSI support and my existing initramfs and just copy over
the xbian rootfs to my iSCSI target or does the custom Xbian initramfs contain something essential?
I don't mind not having the fancy Xbian boot splash. Would the normal kernel be a major performance
hit to Xbian compared to the Xbian optimised? I am using a RaspberryPi B 512MB ram.

What would I have to add to the Xbian initramfs scripts to get it to mount an iSCSI rootfs?

My iSCSI targets sit on a FreeNAS machine so it has ZFS with snapshots and so on, would it be best to
still use BTRFS or migrate over to Ext4 since the underlying ZFS takes care of all the snapshots and
error correction?

Thank you for any ideas on the matter!